Fertilizer – Rancho Orgánico

Worm tea

An organic fertilizer made from livestock manure to improve soil health, enhance forage quality, and support the R3H regenerative cycle.

Organic fertilizer

In 2018, we embarked on a journey that transformed the way we understand soil fertility at Rancho Orgánico Tres Hermanos. Convinced that the true strength of an organic system begins with living soil, we decided to work with nature and enlist the California red worm as an ally to transform our own livestock manure into a natural fertilizer.

Thanks to that decision, the results were quick to follow: while alfalfa in the region typically contains about 17% protein, with the application of our fertilizer, our alfalfa reached 23%, improving the quality of the forage that feeds our livestock.

Worm Tea – Nature’s Regenerative Fertilizer

Made from the castings of the California red worm, Worm Tea is a 100% natural and organic fertilizer that strengthens soil health, enhances plant nutrition, and restores biological balance.

Worm Tea is certified by CERTIMEX as an authorized input for organic agriculture, which supports its use in ranch management and reinforces the value of a fertilizer that promotes soil health, forage quality, and the consistency of R3H’s regenerative model.

Worm Tea is integrated into R3H’s management system as an organic fertilizer that, with the help of California red worms, transforms our own livestock manure into a resource that returns to the soil to strengthen soil health, improve crops, and reinforce the link between soil, forage, and animal nutrition within a single regenerative cycle.

As part of this same cycle, livestock manure is also utilized through a biogas digester that produces biogas, an organic effluent that we apply to our crops through irrigation to support soil restoration, enhance soil fertility, and maintain a management system in which the ranch’s resources are returned to the land with productive value, thereby helping to reduce emissions into the environment and promote practices with a lower climate impact.

For us, Worm Tea has its own place within R3H as part of an approach that views soil fertility as something that can be built using the ranch’s own natural resources.